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66761 Wensleydale Railway Association merrily clags away at the head of 6X44 Bescot Up Engineers to Toton conveying a rake of empty point carriers. Seen passing the former BR wagon shops now Nemsis Rail at Burton on Trent with its eclectic collection of former BR vehicles in varying states.
M. Huaihai Rd. & N. Xiangyang Rd., Shanghai
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/
To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
All members of the public are obliged to go through several rounds of pointless PCR testing, thus increasing the chances of cross-infection. "I don't know if the virus was controlled or not, but the public was definitely controlled", some quipped.
i'm not doing my 365 anymore
its kinda pointless
since i upload everyday anyway
because i've cheated like 98 percent of it
lolol
so yea
:D
new pirates of the caribbean
anyone excited
i am :'DDDDDD
okbye
happy saturday
70816 awaits the aspect in order to cross Eastleigh east junction and propel back into the yard working the diverted 6X26 Oxford Hinksey to Eastleigh East yard engineers, routed via Andover and Laverstock junctions due to engineering work in the Winchester area. A quick sprint down the road from the previous image allowed both locations to be captured on foot.
Unusual to see the tilting point carriers without the boom used to lift off the points at the work sites.
Wagons were
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Saturday 19 November 2022
July2025. Abandoned storefront on The Square in Dewitt, Arkansas, USA. IlfordFP4push400.FujicaST801.FujinonEBC-28mm-M42.YellowFilter.DiafineDevoloper5+5.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
...That pointless stroll we've been taking with my brother just after i got off the bus started to become very meaningful to me when i saw this statue of Don Quijote. As a fresh graduate who feels like his whole ideals about life had collapsed, who lost all his hopes about the future and who has just been discouraged and disappointed by women, i found all the inspiration i need in this man on his horse.
He was a lunetic dreamer. Yet he never gave up on his dreams and always stood up against whatever stands in his way. Even though attacking a windmill was seen a pointless act by others, he chose to attack it any way. Because he wasn't interested in the thing or person he challenged; his whole interest was about challenge itself.
Then i took this beautiful silhouette to remind me this every time i look at it:
"Just because your dreams have never become reality, it doesn't mean that there is no point in dreaming. To make your life more endurable,
Struggle against reality; Enjoy your dreams."
Şelale (Waterfall) Park, Eskişehir - Turkey
That ^^^ means no flashy logos or daft graphics please!!
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Second (and probably last) shot from the other night when I went shooting with my favourite Samoan out at the lighthouse on the peninsula round the corner from here. As I mentioned in passing before, it was really an excuse to talk crap whilst taking a few pictures, and was very nice because of it.
I don't know about any of you guys reading this, but I often have an inner battle when it comes to photos like this. If I take a landscape I take an angry one, because a pretty one is far too predictable and twee. If I take a photo of someone, I feel an inner need somewhere to not do it 100% as you'd expect. My dad reckons both myself and my sister are non-conformists, but I've never really been sure if that's not him trying to be proud of bringing up two rebels, or if it's actually true.
So I sat there looking at the lighthouse, marveling at Dave and how he's just wandering around finding angles to shoot it from that would have never occured to me as I'm too bloody stupid, and I'm battling in my head with the desire to take a photo whilst I was out there, but not to take one that looks pretty. Pretty landscapes suck as far as I'm concerned, there needs to be something else going off. There's no way you'll ever photograph the scene in a method which truly conveys the sheer beauty you'd be seeing if you were actually there anyway, so I see the chasing of the ideal, picture postcard photo as pointless. And not a little sacharin sweet. It's like Paris Hilton, she might be cute, but you'd never wanna marry the girl, you'd cringe every time you introduced her to your friends. (Though the ability to never work again would be a nice offshoot...) I feel the same about pretty landscapes, I'd cringe with embarassment if I showed someone something too coy and sweet. I admire Ansel Adams for the work he did pushing forward photographic ideas, but I hate his pictures. I really didn't like being seen out in Scotland with the tripod as everyone instantly assumed you were trying to be Colin Prior, and I sincerely was not. (I know all the landscape photographers of the world wish they were in NZ to shoot the scenery here, and I remain afraid of what I'll do with what I see when I get the chance to really see the sights of NZ.)
So with all that crap above in mind, I post this whilst hiding behind the back of the sofa, waiting to see if I haven't cocked it up. It's got star trails, blurry sea and a lighthouse in it for crying out loud, it's getting pretty close to being a bit coy and sweet. So the idea of shooting Dave's camera shooting the scene is me trying to break the 'pretty' and add the 'something else.' Seriously, do let me know if it's working, I never profess to be much good at landscapes...
And no, it isn't a digital back on the Mamiya, it's the reflection off the film holder bit, but that is Dave's bag and an empty beer bottle! :-D
To further elaborate on my pondering of how the Music City Star makes any money, here is an image of the exact same train. Despite heavy rain, being the middle of rush hour, and two crashes on I-40, I still managed to beat the train to their eastern terminus of Lebanon by 20 minutes.
Also of interest is the hopper line to the left of the train. The Star is the only commuter railroad I can think of that runs exclusively on shortline trackage. Pretty wild!
Here's train 157 once again, slowing for the station stop at Lebanon. Observed in the fashion of some Brian Rhoads type shit!
That about describes my feelings about the current rail scene in Atlanta, as well as the logo on Amtraks heritage 1 unit seen leading Amtrak 19 through CP Taylor in Temple, GA.
It's pointless to think that when there are several lively and sociable creatures living at home besides myself, I could do my hobbies in peace. :) I was editing the pictures, and my little friends thought that they should get some treats. So I cooked them corn, and here Pilvi and Pyry are tasting it, Sumu pops in at the end. Patrik's "ghost" eventually covers the entire screen :D
Macro Mondays - May 26, 2014 - Wise Old Sayings
"The Pencil of God Has No Eraser"
Weekly ABC Challenge - Week 21 - U is for Useless
Project 365 in 2014 - May 24, 2014 - 144/365
This was an early experiment with a macro lens on my Pentax MX. Taken on slide film and subsequently scanned I have hopefully brought it back to life.
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This model release photo is pretty useless because the models are masked beyond recognition. Besides, this is the only photo of them I've published!
Taken at Burning Man 2016.
#419 in Explore on Dec 7, 2017.
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291/365: 2015
The Weekly Alphabet Challenge - P for pointless
# 18 For October: A month in 31 pictures
I hadn't intended to triple up on challenges today but it's been a very sad day and I just couldn't muster up the energy or inspiration for more photos.
Some of you will remember the photos and story of Mr Levi, the stray cat that I was fostering (photo in comments). Well, he and Podge, our 18 year old cat, just couldn't get along so my eldest son and his girlfriend adopted Levi. He was with them for two weeks and he had settled really well in his new home. They adored him and he them. Unfortunately this morning he suddenly became very unwell so they took him to the emergency vet. To cut a long story short he was a very sick boy and the kindest thing was to let him go. We are all devastated, he was such a lovely cat who after years of living as a stray, had finally found a loving home.